Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 22 April 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform
Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland: Allied Irish Banks
2:00 pm
Mr. Mark Bourke:
We would not disclose a profit forecast for 2015. I will reiterate what the chief executive said. He pointed out that there are four constituents to the pricing decision, namely, costs, the cost of funds, the yield on loans and the cost of risk. Taking each of those in turn, we have made considerable progress on managing our operating cost within the bank. We also believe the cost of risk is returning to a normalised level. Our cost of funds has declined from 1.70% to 1.57% over the past year. All of these are positive trends and if they are maintained, we will be in a position to examine passing some of it on in the short term.
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